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Effect of Interventions on Data
Design and
Implementation
Local Problem
How Health IT
was Used
Value Derived
AMS Partnership Education Sessions
Order Set
and Pathway
• Partnership between CAMH
Addiction Medicine Service
and Emergency Department
to build capacity for
addictions treatments,
including buprenorphine
(Nov 2016 – Mar 2017)
• Education sessions including
benefits, initiation, and
administration of
buprenorphine for all ED staff
(May – June 2017)
• Creation of an
interdisciplinary
buprenorphine pathway and
buprenorphine order set
(August 2017 go-live)
Intervention
Outcomes
• Created clinical awareness
• Generated familiarity and
comfort with prescribing
opioid agonist therapy
• Created practice guidelines to
educate staff about
buprenorphine and its use
within opioid withdrawal and
maintenance therapy
• Created clinical awareness
and enforced regulations to
standardize practice for
buprenorphine patients
• Provided rapid access referral
option to support evidence-
based practice